Maria Clara Salgado Rufino

Maria Clara Salgado
portrait
birthday	May 6, 1983
place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
size	1.76 m
partner	2000 Jackie Silva 2001 Shaylyn Bede 2002 Andreia Dantas 2003–2011 Carolina Salgado 2012 Raquel Pellucci 2012 Vanilda Leão 2012 Liliane Maestrini 2013–2015 Carolina Salgado 2016 Rachel Nunes 2017 Andressa Cavalcanti Ramalho 2018 Elize Secomandi Maia since 2019 Carolina Salgado
successes
2001 - U21 World Champion 2002 - Third U21 World Championship 2003 - Third U21 World Championship 2005 - Third Cape Town Open 2007 - Fifth World Championship 2008 - Winner Open Mysłowice 2008 - FIVB Best Server 2009 - World Championship ninth 2009 - FIVB Best Server 2011 - World Championship - Ninth 2013 - Second Grand Slam The Hague 2013 - Winner Grand Slam Moscow 2014 - Fourth Grand Slam São Paulo 2014 - Fifth Grand Slam Den Haag 2015 - Fifth Major Stavanger
(As of November 7, 2019)

Maria Clara Salgado Rufino (born May 6, 1983 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player .

Career

At the age of twelve Maria Clara began her career as an indoor volleyball player at Flamengo , where she played for five years.

The daughter of Isabel Salgado played her first FIVB World tournament in 2000 with the same partner with whom her mother had started her FIVB career eight years earlier. Like the mother, the daughter only played one tournament with world and Olympic champion Jackie Silva , but with fifth place the result was one place worse. In the following three years, Maria Clara and three different partners each time won a medal at the U21 World Championships, the last one in 2003 with her younger sister Carol , who was her constant partner until 2011, from 2013 to 2015 and again from 2019.

Between 2004 and 2007 the Salgado sisters achieved their best result in 2005 at the South African Open in Cape Town . They took bronze and were the first daughters of a winner of an FIVB World Tour medal to also make it onto the podium.

The 2008 season was Maria Clara and Carol's most successful. In addition to two fourth and fifth places each, the two Brazilians won bronze medals in Stare Jabłonki , Marseille and Dubai . The sisters achieved their first tour victory in Mysłowice , Poland , when, after successes in the loser round against their compatriots Shelda Bede / Ana Paula Henkel and Maria Antonelli / Vanilda Leão in the semifinals, the Norwegians Nila Ann Håkedal / Ingrid Tørlen and in the subsequent final the Germans Katrin Holtwick and Ilka Semmler were able to defeat. The sisters were not quite as successful in the following year, only in Shanghai the two achieved third place. Nevertheless, as in the previous year, Maria Clara was voted the best server in the series.

2010

In the first tournament of the year in the capital of their home country , the Salgado sisters reached the round of the last four, after a defeat against the Germans Goller / Ludwig they were able to defeat the reigning world champions Kessy / Ross in the game for third place . In the following two tournaments, Maria Clara and Carol did not manage to place in the top eight teams, in Seoul the two South Americans finished in seventh place after another defeat by Goller / Ludwig, in Moscow the sisters lost the quarter-finals to theirs as in Gstaad Countrywomen Larissa and Juliana . After three tournaments without a top eight placement, the Salgado sisters in Kristiansand reached the semi-finals for the second time in the current season, which they lost to Larissa and Juliana. As in Brasilia, Maria Clara and Carol won the small final against Kessy / Ross and secured the bronze medal. The Brazilian sisters reached the semifinals in the last two tournaments of the year. While it was only enough for fourth place in China , the South Americans in Thailand took third place for the third time this season.

2011

At the World Championships in Rome , Maria Clara / Carol took ninth place.

2013

At the World Championships in Stare Jabłonki Maria Clara / Carol reached the main round as group winners, where they were eliminated against the Slovaks Dubovcová / Nestarcová .

family

Maria Clara's mother Isabel Salgado won an FIVB tournament in Miami in 1994 . Brother Pedro has won more than ten tournaments and was voted FIVB Tour Champion and Team of the Year in 2008 with his partner. In addition to Pedro and beach partner Carolina, there are three other siblings, Bernardo, Pilar and Celina.

Web links

Commons : Maria Clara Salgado Rufino  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Maria Clara and Carolina Salgado

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Player.asp?ID=1900&Page=1
2. ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Player.asp?ID=1900&Page=3
3. ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Player.asp?ID=1900&Page=4